On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:42:38 +0100 Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to try to package this thing > > http://search.cpan.org/~ken/xls2csv-1.07/ > > but Short answer: The cpan importer is currently not equipped to handle script-packages like this one. > > $ guix import cpan xls2csv > guix import: error: failed to download meta-data for package 'xls2csv' This is because "xls2csv" has no metadata on metacpan.org > Efraim suggested me caps and colons, like the example in the manual > > guix import cpan Acme::Boolean > > But Acme-Boolean is a package. > > There's a folder named Acme containing a file with a namespace declaration > in it > > My thing is not a package, it's a script, it has no namespace declaration, > it's not in a folder Is this common on CPAN? Do you think it would be useful to improve the cpan importer to handle such things? > > How do I correctly call the importer on this ? It can't work, yet. You'll need to declare the package manually. Sorry. `~Eric
